Morning Star Farms Veggie Corn Dog (seriously, if you haven't tried them, you should. They are so good!), decorated with a top hat cupcake topper, a bow tie pick, icing eyes and a cucumber mouth. Served with ketchup and mustard for dipping.

Carrots and celery with ranch

Grapes with "SMILE" letter picks

2 Thin Mints

Lunchbox Love Note

Now for the super exciting part...FREE STUFF!!! I had been eyeing Lunchbox Love notes from Say Please for quite some time but it took me awhile to bite the bullet to buy some because, quite frankly, I figured I can write little love notes to my girls. However, I finally broke down and bought some and I am SO glad that I did. Not only are they adorable, they are so sweet and fun! Each card has a positive note on one side and then a interesting piece of trivia on the other. As I mentioned a few days ago, my youngest daughter even asked me to pack her one on a day she was buying the school's lunch! My daughters said that their classmates ask what the "Did You Know" says before they even get a chance to read it!

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Fine Print: The giveaway will end on Wednesday, March 6th. The winner will have 48 hours to claim their prize. If I do not hear from the winner within that time, I will select a new winner. The winner must currently "like" Lunchbox Love Notes and Bento-logy on Facebook in order to win.

Here are some of the items, or similar items, I used when creating this lunch:

Click on the BentoUSA ad on the right side of my blog to find the bow tie pick, sauce cup and silicone cup.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

As I mentioned earlier, the girls are getting a little burned out on sandwiches so we are thinking outside the bento box. They LOVE pot stickers but we weren't sure how they would be at room temperature or slightly chilled. So, we did a test run at home and they both said they were good. So, hopefully we found another "non sandwich" lunch option!

Pot stickers with dipping sauce

Strawberries with panda picks

Edamame on flower picks

Vanilla yogurt with blueberries

I packed this lunch in the Sassy box and got the flower and panda picks from BentoUSA (see the ad/link to the right)

My daughters informed me they are getting a little tired of sandwiches. (I don't blame them!) So, we are going to try to mix things up a bit by packing some non-sandwich lunches throughout the week. Today, they are both having salads.

All packed in our PlanetBox lunch box with a LunchBox Love note. I actually have a cute story to share about the LunchBox Love Notes... I have recently been putting LunchBox Love notes in my daughters' lunches (I just never remember to include them in the picture!). Today, my younger daughter was buying the school's lunch. She said "Does that mean I don't get a love note?!" So, she asked me to pack her one in her snack instead...Which I did, of course!! I LOVE this product. What an adorable way to make your little one feel extra special and remind them how much they are loved during their school day. Plus, the trivia on the pack of each card is great for lunch table conversation starters!

I don't know about you, but I am ready for spring!! But, based on this week, you sure wouldn't know it's only supposedly a few weeks away! I thought making a snowflake themed lunch might help me embrace the weather...it didn't ;) But, hopefully the lunch was yummy anyway!

Snowflake-shaped sandwich decorated with a snowflake pick. (If you look very closely, you can see I stamped a smaller snowflake in the center of the sandwich. But, it didn't give it the "pop" I was looking for (I think because the bread was too dense) so I added a cupcake pick too.)

Peas

Kiwi and strawberry snowflakes with a snowflake cupcake pick

Cheddar snowflake

Brownie snowflake with snowflake sprinkles

Here are some of the products, or similar products, I used when creating this lunch:

Sorry I have been Missing In Action this week! I've been packing lunches but bad about posting them!!

On Monday, the girls were home from school for the holiday so lunch was a team effort. They used our new Snow White cookie cutters from Williams Sonoma and food safe markers to create their sandwiches while I made the rest of their lunch. Here is what we came up with:

2 Snow White-shaped sandwiches (stacked)

Apple slices

Broccoli and carrots with ranch and an apple cupcake pick

Hershey Kisses

Here are some of the items I used when creating this lunch:

Click on the BentoUSA ad to the right side of my blog to find the sauce cups.

Monday, February 11, 2013

We are in the home stretch of Valentine's Day and I have to admit, I think I started making Valentine's Day themed lunches a bit to early this year because after almost a month, I'm running out of ideas!! We will see what this week holds.

Anyway, while at Target, I spotted an adorable heart shaped pie press. Some of my bento friends have been using mini heart presses but I hadn't seen the larger one before. This press was the side of the full piece of bread. Actually, it was a little larger than the bread. But, I just rolled the bread out slightly with a rolling pin in order to make it large enough to fit.

In most case, I have at least 2 of each bento box so both my girls get pretty much the same lunch. However, we only have one Yubo (so far) and one PlanetBox. So, when I pack in them, their lunches vary slightly.

PlanetBox:

Turkey and cheese sandwich made using the heart shaped pie press and decorated with strawberry fruit leather hearts

Raspberries

Carrots with ranch

Chips and Salsa

2 Hershey Kisses

Yubo:

PB&J sandwich made using the heart shaped pie press and decorated with strawberry fruit leather heart

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Yesterday, we were at the gym early to see my nephew play basketball. We had to wake my youngest up in order to get there on time so I packed her a bento breakfast so she could eat it there.

PB&J cut with my Pampered Chef Cut N Seal and decorated with food safe markers. (I figured we have peanut butter toast all the time for breakfast so a PB&J is pretty much the same thing...just not toasted)

Raspberries

Blueberries

Peach Yogurt

(Her multi-vitamin is in the sauce container)

Here are some of the products, or similar products, I used when creating this bento breakfast:

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

2 Heart Singing sandwiches (stacked), decorated with icing eyes and cucumber mouth. (It's totally driving me nuts that you can see a bit of turkey hanging over in this picture...but not enough to retake it.)

Broccoli, carrot and cherry tomatoes with ranch

Blackberries with a strawberry heart with music note picks

Hershey Kisses

Here are some of the products, or similar products I used when creating this lunch:

Click on the BentoUSA ad to the right for the sauce cups and music note picks.

Lunchbox Love Note (I have been recently including these with the girls' lunches but always forget to photograph them with the lunch. They really get a kick out of getting a little note with their lunch.)

The Toast Stamper was from the Target Dollar Spot. Here are some of the other items, or similar items, I used when creating this lunch:

Monday, February 4, 2013

With Mr. Groundhog saying that spring is on it's way and the days slowly getting longer, I have to admit, I'm already dreaming about summer! Today, is the girls' 100th day of school already!! So, we made a lunch to celebrate :)

2 square shaped sandwiches (stacked...actually it's closer to 1 1/2 sandwiches because that's how much I could get out of the bread) decorated with provolone to say "100 Days"

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I have been married for 15 years (Wow, time flies when you're having fun!) and my wonderful husband and I have been blessed with two amazing children. I love being a wife and a mother and am so blessed for the life God has given me.